agree with you because russia is not responsible for iraq russia is no the sponsible for libya russia is not responsible for syria how can you claim that the world is a better place because of the united states when you have three brutal conflicts that have killed hundreds of thousands of people displaced millions and you can still say that the united states made the world a better place how come i can say it without reservation the united states has also turned europe from a place that had multiple great power wars into a place where you have democracies aligned nato aligned with the united states you have peace. stability freedom economic prosperity and russia's trying to undermine that you know ask countries on russia's border ukraine georgia do they want to be part of russia or do they want to be part of the west and the answer's clear russia has to go to war to prevent those countries from making sovereign decisions about where they'll be aligned but they would prefer to be part of the west part of the e.u. and part of nato because because of what the united states represents and

russia russia until the midterm elections you know these are the people the benefit from all of this and then we have the deep state has been. mentioned before they will drip out all of these leaks here to make sure that any kind of move to better relations will be impossible in the legislation is it remarkably is that if trump actually wants to do some kind of improvement with russia he has to go to specific congressional committees for permission to move forward he's handcuffed and everybody in the elite is quite satisfied with that go ahead midge. yeah a big part of the problem is neither the. republican old guard or the entire democratic party wanted the apple cart to be toppled by donald trump coming in and trying to drain the swamp which is really important for democracy in america so what's the alternative now they're looking for an alternative i mean you've got a weaponized media all targeting donald trump every channel if you click between the different cable programs everybody has antitrust antitrust now the american people poll from one of the major pollsters in america ca

diplomatic mission in russia. well there's no question that if you're talking about seven hundred plus people that a significant loss of capability the overall staff is going to be is going to be dramatically cut but i do think that you know this is the this is the cost of doing business my own opinion is that russia has gotten off lightly for its invasion of ukraine and for meddling in the u.s. election the sanctions that are imposed against russia are legitimate and necessary and if russia chooses to retaliate then so be it will both russia and the u.s. see this as being on a level footing as they know as you say have an equal number of personnel i suppose there's an aside to this why was there such an imbalance with the number of diplomats there. well i think that i can't speak to the actual personnel levels that the two sides have have maintained that it was the guise of helping her and the russian foreign ministry but i do think that what we've seen here is a situation in which the trumpet ministration had in

it's simply what russia does. remember, russia is a country that has a gdp less than 10% of american gdp. gdp is smaller than texas, new york, two-thirds the size of italy. smaller than the combined gdp of the combined in orderic countries. they have to find ways to obtain strategic advantage that doesn't depend on marshaling vast resources and what they call active measure campaigns. it's one of the ways that russia, whether in the soviet ra or the putin era has attempted to achieve the opinion by molding western opinion. >> why don't we open it up to the floor. since this is about modernization, i'll throw it to andrew to get us started. >> you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference also to army leadership comments about the army being outranged j outgunned in europe, and increasingly so. your senate armed services committee mark and airland piece went after this, did increased modernization for the army. my question is, because there's so many things that you can increase or seek to accelerate

measures to russia sanctions by the u.s. congress this week. more than a thousand people both diplomatic and technical staff currently working in russia which are seven hundred fifty five of them will have to stop their activities and that's painful america has taken a step to jeopardize u.s. russia relations and the important thing is that that step wasn't triggered by anything but this is a move to impose a legal restrictions to attempt to influence other countries including u.s. allies which are interested in developing ties with russia. or just a reminder on friday moscow annoyance that in response to those u.s. sanctions american diplomatic staff in the country must be cut to four hundred and fifty five now that's the same amount russia has in the united states and as we've just heard it means that seven hundred fifty five people will have to leave by the beginning of september russia has also said that two diplomatic properties used by washington will be frozen it's a warehouse in the south of moscow on a riverside ret

the perceptive reception is that we should put sanctions we should punish russia for all the russia's transgressions and bad dealings in the world did you ever hear anybody on the mainstream media calling for the world to have sanctions against the united states when the united states invades iraq to everybody the maze free media call for the world to have sanctions against the united states to punish the united states for its overthrow of the government of libya and the creation of chaos throughout the world we suffer from what we call american exceptionalism we apply a very different standard to the united states when the united states screws up around the world our motives are always pure but somehow we made a mistake but we're innocent but we have a very very different standard and that's that corrosive environment that we live in in the united states where we judge ourselves by completely different stand then we judge everybody else and unless we begin to get past that we can understand how the world looks to anybody else from the standpoint of the rest of the world russia might

that's simply what russia does. russia is a country that now have a dvd barely less-than-perfect 10 percent of america's. the ddd falls on the site california, and in new york. smaller than italy. >> smaller than the combined gdp of the five nordic countries, they have to find ways to achieve an advantage that is not based on marshaling bath resources and what they call active measure campaigns, what we would call propaganda or covert influences one of the way russia is weathering the soviet era to achieve that advantage by holding western opinion and dividing nato countries. >> what we open up to the floor and thank you since this is not our injuries yet she started. >>. >> for the folks, just wait for the microphone and identify yourself and ask it in the form of a question. >> thank you for those remarks and you obviously illustrated in your speech and made reference also to our leadership comments about the army being arranged, outgunned in europe and increasingly so >> . >> of your senate armed services committ

and russia destined to be enemies. cross talking russia u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest peter because they can washington is a professor of history and director at american university as well as co-author with all of our stone the untold history of the united states in pittsburgh we have dan koblick he is an adjunct professor of law at university of pittsburgh as well as author of the plot to scapegoat russia and here in moscow we crossed alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander before i want to go to you first ok we can talk about russia gate we can we can talk about collusion you know i want to stay away from what i essentially believe is a fake story here but one thing that is never mentioned in the mainstream media that i'm aware of anyway is is what does russia want in its relationship with the united states we always are told what the u.s. demands of e

>> i think it was russia. it could have been other people and other countries. >> set for 45 minutes from now the two are finally face-to-face. >> i respect putin. he's a strong leader, i can tell you that. i think i'd get along very well with vladimir putin. >> kind words turn into tough talk while outside the summit, protesters are ramping up for another day of chaos. the first lady trapped in her residence. our reporter right there in the middle of it all. >> there are now clashings between protesters and police. >> president trump meeting with world leaders right thousand were a closed session at the g-20 summit with members taking this photo a short time ago in hamburg. but it is the meeting between president trump and vladimir putin that all of us are waiting for. we have the best team in the business on what to expect and really what's at stake. nbc's norah o'donnell is live at the g-20 in germany now. kelly, there is certainly a lot going on. got the handshake between president trump and vladimir putin

is russia allctually our ally? russia considers us to be the main enemy. >> the g20 summit has another day to go, another day of demonstrations on the streets and high-level meetings in well-guarded rooms. but everyone here knows that the main event is now over. so that does it for us from hamburg tonight. rachel will be back on monday, and i will see you again next friday live from iraq where we will take you to the front lines for the final push to drive isis out of the city of mosul. now it's time for "the last word." ari melber is in for lawrence tonight. good evening, ari. >> good evening, richard. thank you for all that reporting. but you go, i do want to ask you given everything, do you think putin got what he wanted out of president trump today? >> i think he absolutely got what he wanted. i think he came in with this intention to have a long meeting. i think he wanted to overwhelm the president, presenting him lots of options, lots of things they could discuss, put some mate

why do you think trump supports russia's so much -- russia so much? host: let's give her a chance to respond. guest: the dossier -- i should point out a lot of the information has not been verified. we do have to be careful how much of that we take as real and how much not. i think the question of why president trump seems to want a better relationship with russia is one most of us cannot answer. at the end of the day having better relations with russia is something that all of us should want, but at the same time the united states cannot sacrifice our values and principles in the pursuit of that relationship. i think what the administration has been finding out, like many administrations previously, is that it is fraud and difficult and the russians are not reliable partners so we have to find other ways for the things to get done without relying on shem as an ally in our attempt and desire to keep america safe. host: alina polyakova of the atlantic council, think you for joining us today. you can find more at atlanticcouncil.org. you can find her on

iraq has historic ties with russia and then we need russia's political as well as military presence to restore balance in the region in the interests of the countries and nations living there. now this was the voice of his working meeting with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov now while we do see some positive dynamics in the relations between iraq and russia the relations between iraq and the united states are not in such a good shape now he has been known as a vocal critic to the opening of new american bases on the iraqi territory and he has expressed discontent so that americans are claiming that victory and recapture . from islamic state is only of their achievement now while of the working of iraq's vice president is underway here in russia we do expect to hear much more from his two day today's meeting was the russian president. thank you for that i'm sure we'll be coming back to you once that the vice president meets with put in thanks for that for now that was our. reporting for. an adult movie about homosexual muslim refugees has sparked controversy in germany the film

russia has faced sanctions that are actually increasing not decreasing in the case of syria yes russia has increased its geo political influence in a limited way because it now has a strong ally in the assad but in the wider world when russia is backing a country that uses chemical weapons against its own people when russian and syrian aircraft are bombing hospitals is this a win for russia in the court of world opinion i don't think so but. i don't want to get into the issues but then i could turn the table in here and say is it a win for the united states to continue sponsor jihadi groups as it's been doing throughout the middle east and there's the matter of fact is that you cannot accuse me of making a fake news because you know that the united states in even under the obama administration was supporting groups. it doesn't feel like maybe that support was limited nonetheless that's jihadi groups are you referring to and number of them for example in syria there are a number of as a former reporter in syria i know that there have been and number of groups that either the united stat

last month there was a kind of more pragmatic attitude towards russia. this from side of the german and who is different the decision maker in your opinion. and maybe maybe you are right partly that now. why didn't you tell was russia slightly change what you know we're kind of split. in this russian terms for we have baltic states with poland with of. the countries who are kind of more recent phobic let me say and there is no common position still was speaking about this only just before a meeting with putin trump is expected to make a stop in poland who's relations with brussels and the old europe are far from smooth even those tensions continue to grow and it looks like they will continue to grow who do you think the baltic states will find themselves closer to is a burden in brussels or warsaw. really. i cannot answer this question i hope that we are able to be more constructive. to the previous experience i would say that we will be closer to to washoe unfortunately i personally i am i'm the first that i'm russian speaker doesn't matter but we were

because they're based this russia really -- in russia really. but they want to spend money and sort of enjoy the best of two worlds. this brings me to my second major point in preng. kleptocracy in russia is not something residual. i believe there are strong indicators that we're passing through times when, as in 1930's, the very existence of liberal western capitalism, with -- s of good government [inaudible] -- i call this phenomenon g-13 versus g-7 in g-20. in fact, g-7 itself could be, you know, not seen as that much about western liberalism. if you look at countries like italy or ette. so we see that most developing countries seem to be learning worst kleptocratic government and business practices and capitalism based on the rule of law and proper separation of powers is no longer an ideal for societies where people have adapted to sophisticated and often seemingly comfortable and acceptable forms of state level corruption. so corruption is a new accepted norm on many, many levels in societies, both in the west and in post-soviet space and

one major joint project with russia nor in stream to pipeline is aimed to bring russia gas from russia to europe to the baltic sea firms from germany austria france and the netherlands agreed to pay half of the cost of the pipeline and invest almost five billion euros into the project the list of companies that fear being affected include some of the world's biggest players in the industry here's some of them including england at shell french company n g the u.k.'s b p n germany's that winter shall and head of winter shell has declared that these sanctions shouldn't be used to push someone's economic interests referring to the us promoting it liquid natural gas r.t.s. peter oliver has more from the european reaction well it's the potential of the sun sions could have both the the business and energy sectors here in europe that has e.u. officials hostile to the cola there are potentially huge fines for businesses that would enter into energy projects with russia many of those blue chip european companies of course all heavily involved that we've heard from the german forward ministry is

against russia, against iran. i want to thank the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee from new york for his determined and excellent work on this legislation. this is a very important bill. these three regimes in different parts of the world are threatening vital u.s. interests and they are destabilizing their neighbors. it is well past time that we forcefully respond. under vladimir putin, russia has invaded its neighbor ukraine. seizing its territory and destabilizing its government. it poses a threat to our nato allies in europe as moscow works valuesrmine democratic with determination and sophistication. as u.s. intelligence agencies have made clear, this kernel attempted to interfere with our election. if left unchecked, rest assured to continue its aggression. in his forces continue to pop up. the murderous assad regime in syria prolonging a deathly, deadly conflict that has driven tens of millions of people from their homes while enabling the of chemical weapons and other systematic human rights

who immigrated to russia i'm the. new energy surge and we're going to be any cold war since probably since august of two thousand and eight possibly as early as back as two thousand and three two thousand and five with the color revolutions that failed in ukraine and georgia but i prefer to think of it not as an ideological struggle left. to democracy capitalism but as a great power conflict hold on one that we're going to go to a short break and after our short break we'll continue our discussion on new sanctions stay with r.t. . make it is that he's if a seed or a seed you'll see. so if you have this is just going to come. and this is not going to be but. it's a big. economic development is all about numbers really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six points. but what do we know about the other figures. well. think about the fact that our c.e.o. mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don'

the truth is this is nothing new for russia. weather in the soviet era or the vladimir putin era, the russians take a hard eye view of the treaties they signed, do the treaties serve their interests, if it does they abide by it. if it doesn't they don't. the soviets signed the anti-ballistic missile treaty in 1972 for instance because it served their interests. us technology was more advanced, if we developed an effective missile defense system their nuclear deterrent wouldn't deter that much. that didn't stop the russians from pushing their luck. for years they maintained a large phased array radar that plainly violated the treaty. the us protested until the soviet union finally agreed to dismantle that radar. seven years after we first detected it. from their perspective, the treaty and its violation was a bargaining chip. to the russians, any treaty is just another point of leverage especially against nato. i would suggest it is time we look at inf treaty the same way. beyond our current commitments we should ask ourselves wh

that cooperates with russia's pipeline projects it's about sending a message to russia to hold mr putin accountable for his actions we will take tough action against russia the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a vital element of u.s. foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it but what does selling gas to europe have to do with protecting the sanctity of america's voting machines the point is it hasn't got to do anything with the geo political sphere with the frozen conflict in the ukraine though

the aggressor when it comes to russia they have all the all the nato troops on the border of russia they helped overthrow the ukrainian government with the with the help of the ngos they had to keep having missiles in the direction of russia and then of course you have the sanctions which are an act of war of itself so how can the media keep portraying as russia's aggressor when the evidence suggests the contrary just because russia cares about its border or they want to protect their sovereignty somehow there are literally hitler of the next over the next boogie man that the united states needs to topple so are the propaganda coming from the coersion news now we get it's just it's both comical and frightening michael if you've worked in government at the high levels here let's talk about the american election being hacked whatever that really really means because i don't know i mean you were sitting with people in power that were well aware of how the united states in meddled in elections all around the world and that they wouldn't think twice about doing that would they but the ev

russia maybe the u.s. . the u.s. then its way and i probably in the states on the united states all you know well and how do you feel about that i faked that our trade policies under the present current administration has got a right i can't believe it could be president that you're trying to protect themselves with trouble being president you've got to expect a lot of crazy things not good but we have to stand out it's not good for us and it's not good for the world we think that we can exist by ourselves we can the world is a much bigger place now with becoming less and less important it's a trade war a trade war between us and the jar and the germans us and the rest of the world it saves a lot of people i think voted for mr trump. because he was hoping not to keep our continual adventures in foreign countries to reduce the wars and what we're having here is just we're creating more of a worse situation in were and we're needing our european partners as well and we're basically we've got a congress imposing their o

. >> winston churchill, famously in russia. it is a mystery. prime minister churchill meets vladimir putin. >> he's very much of a leader. he's been a leader far more than our president has been a leader. >> he does not have a soul. >> vladimir putin is a thug and a murder and a killer. >> he's the richest man in the world. hundreds of millions of dollars corrupted. >> what does he want from donald trump? >> putin is going to eat him like a sandwich. >> he rather has a puppet as a president. >> how powerful is he? >> putin has an trample authority. so powerful he rigged the america's election? he didispice hillary clinton. america asks, what does he want? is he really the most powerful man in the world? december 5th, 1989, it was a cold night in dresden, east germany. it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just formed. all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets and lashing out symbols of communist rules. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the bui

trump publicly called out russia. >> we urge russia to cease it's destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere, and it's support for hostile regimes, including syria and iran. >> reporter: he cast doubt on u.s. intelligence assessments putin was behind the meddling in the 2016 election. >> i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. putin is showing he the man planning on mags things easy for trump. praising the success of a g dos 20 in a newspaper, but slamming u.s. trade policies as protectism. u.s. sanctions as doomed to fail. he also voiced support for the paris climate accord which trump pulled out of, calling it quote, a reliable international framework. behind the scenes, his top aids, secretary of state rex tillerson, defense secretary jim mattis, and fiona hill, putin critic now on the national security council are prepping him for tomorrow's sit-down with putin. it's the most anticipated of his nine meetings on the sidelines of the g20 summit. the president is studying

russia meddled in the american election russia hacked the american election there are investigations going on now we have the public hasn't been given any kind of proof but the u.s. government in congress has already made its drawn its conclusions when we have no conclusions whatsoever i mean that this is the folly of all of this here you again act before you know what the what the facts are on the ground and they're not interested in facts because none of them have really been produced the socks out from under my bed. but the bottom line is all of these accusations there is no evidence presented there can't even be any evidence because neither the f.b.i. the n.s.a. the cia the op. the office of the director of national intelligence no one actually looked at the purported scene of the crime that democratic national committee servers where emails were supposedly hacked by russia wiki leaks says they got them from a whistleblower and then these emails exposed to the d.n.c. and the hillary can come main colluded to rig their own primary to have hillary clinton elected and that is what t

sometimes the ideological russia do in the work hand in glove and by ideological russia i mean the project to essentially make russia a great again to bring it back up off of its means to restore it to what it believes to be its rightful place as a world power. sometimes corruption and ideology go hand in hand but at other times they are in tension with each other and operate at cross purposes. closely related is the weaponization of the russia organized crime which is also used as a tool of statecraft. but just as it is incorrect to classify russia, it's also incorrect to classify it as a mafia state as many do. more accurately, as my friend and colleague wrote in a recent report on the council for foreign relations, russia is a state with a nationalized mafia. the securities upgrade closely with organized crime and often precipitating their activities as the result of security services they are able to establish the so-called black account which has untraceable cash that can be used for all sorts of off the books operations and influence operations abroad and i could go into a little mor

with russia. and in effect, has allowed vladimir putin to cast doubt on the idea that he was, in fact, interfering with the united states election, which he was. >> i want you to repeat yourself one more time. ali and have not been able to see all the e-mails. you're saying in the e-mail it says, quote, russian government attorney with sensitive info, quote, part of russia, and its government support for mr. trump. it says that specifically in the e-mail exchange between rob goldstone and donald trump jr., is that correct? >> yes, that's the language that rob goldstone used, which makes it difficult to understand how in any way this is exculpatory for donald trump jr. or the trump white house. this is confirming ever that -- every question raised about potential collusion and refuting all of the denials from the white house about the idea that, well, there was no collusion with russia, he went into this meeting blind, didn't know who it was, this puts it in black and white, he released them to get

and russia. and maybe the discussion about interference in elections maybe this is only a symptom of this trust that has been lost what do you believe the e.u. could do and russia could do to regain this trust. i said that already it's not up to us but to be opinion we don't hold any grow each and the decisions taken by opinion absolutely out of the legal fear and we well probably would know who was behind the wheel and we know who did this in their opinion and our side up in union now we take all possible steps in order to ensure the growth of our country which would be independent of search probabl confrontational and. international law scenario. before and by our partners about to do same time we continue to trade with opinions and our biggest collective traits partner investments well in the flow of the best move this is a very simple substantial well almost no he decided to leave russian market and i regularly meet with businessman. and they are far from being set just why was this happening

interest against russia. second, the myth that nato deterrence is at risk because of the united states, not europe. talk is cheap. deterrence is about the military balance of power not magic words. national leaders can call article five any pretty word they want, but europe's collective failure to meet the 2% goal of defense spending has under invested in our common defense by something on the magnitude of 100 - $120 billion per year. vladimir putin can see the reality of what national leaders in europe think about the defense the matter what years they use. it is well-known that russia's is within the range of the treaty and european leaders continue to resist the efforts to bring russia into compliance with those treaties. doctor, as you noted the german foreign minister has protested that pass the senate 97 to two because germany does business with russian communities. which they shouldn't be building in the first place if there that worried about russia want to determine deter them in your. and the 2% goa

the energy sector of russia's economy the bill penalizes any company that cooperates with russia's. pipeline projects it's about sending a message to russia to hold mr putin accountable for his actions we will take tough action against russia the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline into europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance in energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a vital element of u.s. foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it but what does selling gas to europe have to do with protecting the sanctity of america's voting machines the point is has got to do anything with

>> russia as a state, of course not. russia as a state. i cannot say anything about each of 145 million people. that is not possible. >> now we're seeing a tightening of the sanctions. do you think he will approve or veto them? >> i think he's not so powerful, not like previous presidents of the united states. >> you see president trump as a victim surrounded by hostile forces? >> i can tell you that for me, that's my personal vision. >> what if he vetoes the sanctions? is that a sign of strength? >> look, it is not about is he strong guy or not. it is not a cyber game. it is reality, you see? and if people like to put the world to the hell by such kind of sanctions, it's their choice, but it's the wrong choice. >> you're watching "on assignment" live from moscow. we'll be back after the break. stay with us. [ crickets chirping ] [ light music playing ] you've wished upon it all year, and now it's finally here. the mercedes-benz summer event is back, with incredible offers on the mercedes-benz you've always longed for. but hurry, these sho

you have to engage with russia. there has to be dialogue but it has to be done extremely warily. >> bret: you used to be the energy minister in great britain. all of this talk say about energy in poland and liquid natural gas, a lot is happening that possibly changes the dynamic with russia and energy in the region. >> i think the president is quite right to call attention to the need for europe to reduce its dependence on a single source of energy. a lot of these eastern european countries are wholly dependent or substantially dependent on russian gas. what's important is to diversify energy. in britain, we are starting to take shale gas from the united states but we also have nuclear, we also have renewable renewables, it's important europe diversifies so it's no longer subject to any kind of political pressure paid the president is right about that. >> bret: here is president trump in poland on nato. >> the united states has demonstrated not merely with words but with its actions that we stand firmly behind artic

and russia? >> you know what, i think it is way bigger than did russia do something in our election. why did 40% of eligible voters not even vote? that's like over 95 million people that could have voted sat it out because they couldn't bring themselves to vote for either trump or hillary. >> it started out lessen your taxes, then started out russia, russia, russia, then collusion, collusion, collusion, all these things have been falling by the wayside. but i really don't care, as long as he delivers for the american people, gets jobs, look at the new jobs 220,000 jobs were added and only expected 170,000 the last period. >> i saw the jobs reports it was 225 but most was in the restaurant sector. >> jobs are jobs. >> that's right, our stock market is through the roof. our gas prices down first time in eight years. >> that's what matters to the american people. how does it affect their pocketbook? >> but adding jobs that you want high paying high industry jobs. that's where an economy grows. the s

he's the most visible opposition figure in russia. he plans to run for president next year, although putin says he's going to ban him from the ballot and not let him run. navalny is just getting out of prison now. organized protests across cities in russia last month. his production group produced a documentary about the federal prosecutor in russia last year. an english language version came out in january, a russian language version before that. and the accusations in that documentary is that in addition to being the top prosecutor in putin's brutal government, the main allegation about this video is that in addition to that he and his family and he and his cronies have somehow imagined to emass massive wealth and a huge business empire, including a luxury spa hotel in greece and gigantic salt mines in russia. all of these things you wouldn't think he would be able to afford on his prosecutor's salary. one of the hated members of the putin government, hand picked for the prosecutor position by putin himself. he's also now, i think,

if you look at general mcmaster, his top russia adviser, you hear more skepticism about putin and russia's role in the middle east east and europe. the difference between a scripted speech and what he said hours later at a press conference where he didn't have what his staff puts in front of him, that's where you heard the contrast. robert: let's get to that g20 speech that kicked off the entire week for president trump. he was speaking to thousands of people in poland, and you saw the president being cheered, but there is a class of protestors and that theme was echoed in the speech. and there was a clash of civilizations and warned that the united states is being threatened. president trump: there are dire threats to our security and to our way of life. do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and zoy it? robert: it raises the question how much is the president who campaigned on america first, disrupting these traditional expectations often found at the global summit? it came again as we listened to this speech. doyle: the

russia has similar rules in place for u.s. diplomats in russia. another issue is this ongoing frustration with the state department over granting of visas people that the u.s. intelligence community suspects are intelligence officers. state department official would not comment specifically on the visas issues citing con fideniali fideniality. the official said they worked with russia they can where we don't see eye to eye with russia the united states will continue to stand up for the issues and values of america and allies and partners. the homeland security department would not comment on the russian visas but said there is an extensive visa vetting process for granting those visas. >> final questions, why do your sources believe that this is happening now? >> a few reasons. it is multi prong. even after the meddling in the u.s. elections in 2016 the u.s. under obama and now trump have been slow to thake measures to respond. partisan political disagreements over russian activity and president donald trump's reluctance to accept has low efforts

hereon is an ally of russia. -- iran is an ally of russia. there are brought objectives that have been stated, but what policies to achieve those objectives are not yet clear. host: one thing that came out of this meeting is the announcement of a cease-fire in syria, in the southern most region according to the new york times. secretary tillerson said this is the first indication of the u.s. and russian being able to work together in syria. how significant is this? it is just a partial cease-fire in the southwestern region bordering jordan and israel. how significant is this? guest: one thing about vladimir putin, he makes a lot of deals any break them. he has broken treaties and agreements made by previous presidents. cease-fires in recent months in ukraine in the last days of the obama administration. cease-fire deals were broken. we have to see it this time the deal is kept. sometimes he does keep his word and we don't know this will be one of those cases. there is a lot of u.s. concern about this area which borders on jordan, a very relia

trump questioned if russia was even behind the attacks on the united states. >> i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries, and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. >> and he attacked his own intelligence community on foreign soil. >> everybody was 100% sure that iraq had weapons of mass destruction. guess what? that led to one big mess. >> joining me now is the former head of the cia, john brennan. mr. brennan, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, chuck. thanks for having me on. >> the president said a few other things specifically about the intel committee. he tweeted, putin and i discussed forming a cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. why did obama do nothing when he had info before the election? all right. there is a lot to unpack in here. but let's start with, do you interpret this as president trump taking the word of vladimir putin over the word of the america's intelligence community? >> it certainly indicates he doesn't take the word of the int

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